Alan Taylor sent us these pictures of the former BBC LO-4 Type 5 scanner being hoisted into the garden of the Lock Keeper’s Cottage at Bow.
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Carry on Trucking
Carry on Trucking – Jeffrey Borinsky
While many enthusiasts collect radios and televisions, broadcasting equipment is a more neglected area. The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG) is a group of people who rescue, restore and conserve historic UK television equipment, focusing on the engineering aspects. We aim to use this to present television history to the public. Continue reading “Carry on Trucking”
Radio Links from Outside Broadcasts in the 1960s
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs
Dan Cranefield recalls the days before satellite uplinks.
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The Royal Wedding of July 1986
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs
I was the Senior Engineering Manager in charge of all the technical arrangement for the Wedding and in charge of the main site at Westminster Abbey, working to the main Producer, Tim Marshall.
Making Old Television Technology Make Sense
A new approach to technological television history and conservation
By Dr Paul Marshall
Abstract
How does traditional analogue television work? That’s a question beyond the comfort zone of most media historians who may not be familiar with analogue electronics. Even young engineers know little of thermionics, cathode rays and a myriad of other forgotten technologies. This important facet of television’s history is now only recorded by older engineers and by amateur groups who collect these technologies. In this paper, I will show by using examples how material artefacts can help us understand television’s history more fully.
Keywords: broadcasting, engineering, television, conservation, restoration, preservation
How to Cite: Marshall, P., 2019. Making Old Television Technology Make Sense. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 8(15), pp.32–45. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc163
Article
Read the article here: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc163
BBC EHX86V CMCR20
A recent addition to the website, but a vehicle we have been involved with for a few years is EHX86V, one of The BBC Type 5 units, designated LO6 or CMCR20.
See the project page for more details.
Vivat work
We’ve been busy with some more work on Project Vivat, See the Vivat latest news page for more details.
Pre-War OBs and Other Things
Dicky Howett rummages through the Radio Times
Via the delights of eBay, I acquired recently, the first 26 editions (from Jan. 8th 1937) of the Radio Times special ’Television’ supplement.
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The Life and Times of Studio ‘S’
Dicky Howett delves into the engineering logs of BBCtv Southampton.
Colourful Times
Dicky Howett charts a few colour tv experiments and returns to the fervid days of early British colour tv.